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  • noun Plural form of backlot.

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Examples

  • The video is called "What You See Isn't Always What You Get" but it's actually a demo reel for Stargate Studios, a visual effects company that specializes in virtual backlots which is what this kind of green screen removal is.

    The Many Uses of Green Screen Virtual Backlot Demo Video « FirstShowing.net 2009

  • The maps of MGM's famous sound stages and backlots accompanied by lists of films shot on each are particularly fascinating.

    A Peek Inside the Dream Factory Jeanine Basinger 2011

  • With time-travel and immortal androids, you could feature storylines set in a variety of historical periods -- past, present, and future, and using whatever sets or backlots are available -- with the same characters in each.

    MIND MELD: SF/F Books That Would Make A Great TV Series 2010

  • Armed with the 12th birthday gift of a Super 8mm movie camera, the brothers began producing their own versions of Hollywood epics, substituting their apartments and rooftops for backlots and rounding up neighborhood friends as their stars.

    Picking Out Eye Candy Steve Dollar 2011

  • Nope, it's all going to be done on backlots, he told me.

    EXCLUSIVE: Ray Winstone Cast As Caesar In Cleopatra Musical, Soderbergh Calls It ‘Viva Las Vegas Meets Tommy’ » MTV Movies Blog 2008

  • The slate of films blowing in from the steppes across the Hollywood backlots includes Mission to Moscow, Ninotchka (natch), Reds, Red Danube, The North Star, My Son John, and I Was a Communist for the FBI (which the literary critic Marvin Mudrick contorted into I Fucked a Bear for the FBI).

    Red Shadows: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • Understand, though, that relying on unnamed sources is necessary everywhere in journalism, and maybe nowhere more so than in the overcaffeinted corridors and backlots of the showbiz capital.

    Cable Neuhaus: Anonymous in Hollywood 2008

  • Over time, the studios and their craftspeople had learned how to best light, photograph and dress standing sets on the backlots and almost get away with shooting certain exterior scenes on soundstage interiors.

    '60z Jaime J. Weinman 2008

  • I grew up visiting sets, playing on backlots, and watching movies being made.

    Wishful Drinking Carrie Fisher 2008

  • Lucas even intends that half the backlots for the new movies will be virtual: actors will perform against green-screens and computer-generated sets will be inserted later.

    The Force Is Still With Him 2008

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